I am spending the majority of my (non-work) waking hours in the kitchen, baking up a bunch of the most amazing treats you've ever seen! I can't wait to share them with you, but that requires time- something I don't have this week. Instead, my friend Tova B. is showing you folks how to make a delicious looking Panini. I dunno about all of you, but after reading this I have been craving Panini. I can't wait to try this recipe!
If you want to contact Tova you can email me and I will forward it on to her.
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I love this recipe because it really is all about your own taste. The ingredients are simple, but the measurements of them … [Read more...]

Are you sick of hearing about Passover/Pesach yet? Well bad news folks, Passover is not for another week, so y0u've got another two weeks of hearing about my Passover cooking. On the other hand, if you think it's bad, imagine what kind of separation anxiety I am feeling for my best friend, er, I mean my Kitchen Aid.
I've been searching the web for interesting Passover recipe ideas, and I definitely am not coming up short. There's a plethora of recipes out there, each one out-doing the next in terms of creativity and non-passover-like qualities. But I think the best Passover recipes are the simple things, the ones you can make by default, because they happen not to contain any grains. (Such … [Read more...]

I won't deny it. I have a love/hate relationship with salads.
On the one hand, when I go into hard-core dieting mode, my supper most nights consists of a huuuuuge bowl of salad with my protein cut into little chunks inside of it. (And by protein, obviously I mean grilled chicken breast, because I'm a super picky eater and that's pretty much the only diet-friendly protein I'll eat.) I'm always amazed at the level of satisfaction I can get in terms of the satisfaction to calorie ratio. (Diet math is all about calculating that ratio and eating foods with the high ratios. Trust me. I'm an expert.)
Here's the problem though. In order for me to eat salad, it's got to be pretty much perfect. No … [Read more...]

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This salad has a long history. Very long.
It started about three (maybe four?) years ago when I ate dinner with an excellent cook named Batya. She made a salad with some roasted vegetables and chickpeas, and I absolutely loved it. I went home and copied it, and served it to my sister. My sister loved it, and made it again, for me, when I visited her. Then I forgot about this salad, and I thought my sister did too. Fast forward a couple of years, when I spent the weekend at my sister's house. As I have mentioned … [Read more...]

Every year, around this time, I get this panicky feeling as I think about the summer slipping away. Wait! How can summer be ending? I didn't have enough fun yet! I didn't do all of the summery things I wanted to do!
This summer more so than usual. I've been working overtime at work, on top of my super long hours. I spent weeks preparing for the party for my sister's new baby. I started a food blog.
Here's what I haven't done. I haven't gone on vacation. I haven't spent time in the beautiful outdoors. My skin is as white as it was in December. For me, it might as well be the dead of winter.
Except for the barbecues. And oh what amazing barbecues I've made. Chicken, burgers, steak, veggies- … [Read more...]

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